Civilizations
Christopher Columbus
Vocabulary
Early North American societies
Miscellaneous
100

First americans used these in order to navigate through North America, Central America, and South America.

What is boats?

100

The Comubian exchange included the exchange of these three items

What are Plants, Animals, and Diseases?

100

Extra food

What is Surplus

100
  • Dug networks of water ditches for farming that carried water from nearby rivers in order for farmers to grow crops (corn, squash, and beans).

Who are the Hohokam?

100

The most powerful force in medieval western Europe was this religion

What is the Roman Catholic Church?

200

During the last ice age, these (thick sheets of ice) covered one third of the earth.

What are Glaciers?

200

Spanish monarchs gave Columbus this title and then agreed to finance future voyages.

Who is “Admiral of the Ocean Sea”?

200

A community of people that share common customs, language, and rituals

What is Tribe

200

What were the FIVE ways people of the early societies were able to survive?

Hunting, gathering, fishing, farming and trading

200

a kind of clay used as building material, sun dried brick

What is Adobe?
300

The Olmec, The Maya, The Inca, The Aztec

What are the four civilizations?

300

This was a major cause for European Exploration and why Spanish rulers supported Columbus’s voyage.

What is The spice trade?

300

A political unit that controls a city and its surrounding land

What is city states

300

This culture lived in pit houses and women made warm clothing out of furs.

Who are Cultures of the Arctic Region?

300

The chain of Command in Europe

What is King, Most powerful lords, Lesser nobles, Peasants who were farmers and needed permission to leave the land from the lords.

400

Priest in this civilization studied the sun, the moons and the stars. Also, astronomy (the study of space and the physical universe), and mathematics.

Also, they created the 365 day calendar

Who are the Maya?

400

Columbus presented Queen __________ and King ____________ with gifts of pink pearls and brilliant colored parrots.

Who is Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand

400

An entire way of life developed by people (including homes, clothing, economy, arts and government)?

What is culture

400

The Ancestral Puebloans created a these to link towns together in order for traders to be able to make a profit (money).

What is network of roads?

400

Using grasslands, mountains, and deserts of Central Asia linked to China and the Middle East

What is silk road?

500

The Olmec had powerful leaders that built these

What are stone temples?

500

This is the area of the world that Christopher Columbus traveled during his voyages

What is Spain to the West Indies?

500

The system of rule by lords who ruled their lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch

What is Feudalism

500

These people were considered nomads (moved from place to place) and could find food.

Who are Cultures of the Subarctic Region?

500

This African ruler had a lot of wealth from gold. A living was made from herding, fishing and farming.

Who is Mansa Musa?